Pin-delivering receptacle.



H. w. BACH, PIN. DELIVEBING REGE PTACLE.

APPLICATION HL'EO AUG.2B. I916. 1,284,210. Patented Nov. 12, 1918.

Half

INVENTOR BAG/1 WITNESSES ATTORNEY 10-: mm: arm on pnmunm. \usmumon, u. c.

' HARVEY w. Been, on eannnnn, CALIFORNIA.

PIN-DELIVERING RECEPTAOLE.

' Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed'August 2S, 1916. Serial No. 117,305.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARVEY W. Been. a citizen of the United States, residing at Gardena, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pin-Delivering Receptacles, of which the following is a in its lowermost portion with an enlarged forward upper end, from which may be extracted the heads of the pointed members depending through the slot.

For a further object, the invention contemplates the provision of a receptacle of the above-statcd character which will be of such construction that the pointed members will be automatically fed to the inclined bottom with the points of the members extended through the slot, said members moving automatically to upright position with the heads of the same resting upon theinner face of the body of the receptacle along which said heads may be readily drawn when extracting the pointed members from the forward end of the slot.

The invention has for a still further object, the provision of a receptacle of this character which will be of extremely simple construction, inexpensive and highly efficient 1n use.

With these general objects in view and others that will appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consistsin the novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter more fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings and pointed out in the appended claim.

In the drawings forming a part of this application and in which like designating characters refer to corresponding parts throughout the several views Figure 1 is an elevation of the complete device. r

2 is a 'bcttomrplan view.

. Fig. 3 is a front elevation of the body of the receptacle, and

Fig. i is a fragmentary. side elevation, showing a slightly modified form of the 111- vention.,

Referring more in detail to the drawings, 1 deslgnates'the body of the device which is preferably of elongated form and is provided with a cover 2 having a pair of curved hinge members 3 formed upon its rear end and engaged through suitable slots 4 in the rear side of the body .1. The body 1 comprises side walls 5 and end walls 6 and 7. The lower'edges of the side walls 5 are turned to extend inwardly toward the center of the receptacle to provide ,an inclined bot tom, and the adjacent edges of said inwardly turned portions are spaced apart to define an intervening slot 8'hav1ng an enlarged forward end 9 through which the head of' the pin or other pointed instruments may be withdrawn from the receptacle. The said inwardly curved edges of the sides 5 are made of such depth toward the forward end of the receptacle that the bottom as a whole willbe inclined downwardly from the forward to the rearward end of the receptacle. The rear wall 6 of the receptacle has its lower edge extended downwardly beyond the corresponding edge of the forward end 7 and this extended portion is integrally connected with the inwardly turned edges of the side walls at the rear end of said in, wardly turned portions. This connection between the lower edge of the rear wall and W w e e em e- Patented o 1a1ei's.

the lower inwardly curved edges of the side walls provides for the closing of the slot at its rear end and also serves to reinforce the inwardly turned portions and to strengthen the same. From this it will be evident that owing to the peculiar construction of the bottom portion of the body. the pins or other members placed within the receptacle will be automatically fed to the slots 6 with the points and shanks of the pins extended through said slot and the heads of the pins resting upon the inner face of the inclined bottom. By drawing the pins forwardly along the slot 8 they may be readily extracted owing to the size of the forward end 9 of the slot which permits the heads of said pins to pass easily therethrough.

In Figs. 1 and 2, I have shown the body 1 as supported upon a post 11 which has a flattened upper end 12 secured in a suitable manner to the rear face of the body 1, while the lower end of the post 11 is bent to form a support 13 of circular form or any other suitable form, the free extremity of the material from which the post 11 and support 18 are formed being engaged around a horizontally extended portion 1 1 of the same as shown at 15 in Fig. 2.

By referring to Fig. 4, it will be seen that I have provided a slightly modified form of the invention, in which the body 1 has a supporting member 2" secured upon its rear end and bent at a right angle, as shown at 3,

then bent again at a right angle as shown at 1, and extended upwardly parallel with the main or first-mentioned portion of said member 2. A second supporting member 5 is secured to the portion 3 of the member 2' and has its end 6 extended downwardly at a right angle, said portions 6 of the member 5' and the portion 4: of the member 2 forming arms by means of which the device may be secured to the frame of a mirror or some other suitable stationary support.

While the form of the invention herein shown and described is what is believed to be the preferred embodiment thereof, it is side walls, said rear wall having its lower portion extended below said side and front walls, bottom walls inclined downwardly and inwardly from said side walls and having their rear ends integrally connected with the extended lower portion of said rear Wall, and their meeting edges spaced apart to define an intervening slot, vsaid'bottom walls decreasing in depth toward their forward ends so that the meeting edges thereof incline upwardly from the lower portion or" said rear wall to the lower portion of said front wall.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HARVEY W. BACH.

Witnesses:

JOHN Z. ARMSTRONG, GEO. H. CULVER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner or Patents, Washington, D. G. 

